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Satyrcentaur wrote:On the 2012 Cupcake Scoring Thingamabobber, it says that students need to do a minimum of the following 9 experiments, test the viscosity, and record the results. Is this judged for the competition and do we need to do this during the test?
By the way, our competition is tomorrow so it'd be great if anyone who knew responded ASAP.

Cupcakes were in the draft rules, but not the final rules. You need to get a copy of the published rules from your coach.

chalker wrote:

Satyrcentaur wrote:On the 2012 Cupcake Scoring Thingamabobber, it says that students need to do a minimum of the following 9 experiments, test the viscosity, and record the results. Is this judged for the competition and do we need to do this during the test?
By the way, our competition is tomorrow so it'd be great if anyone who knew responded ASAP.

Cupcakes were in the draft rules, but not the final rules. You need to get a copy of the published rules from your coach.

Thanks, we were just a bit confused and stressed

chalker wrote:Cupcakes were in the draft rules, but not the final rules. You need to get a copy of the published rules from your coach.

chalker, this really needs to be made clearer on the National site in the future since not all folks are as familiar with Science Olympiad (that the published rules rule, essentially) as, say, those who regularly post here. This has thrown off several people in my personal experience, though I do not know how widespread the confusion has been.

Skink wrote: chalker, this really needs to be made clearer on the National site in the future since not all folks are as familiar with Science Olympiad (that the published rules rule, essentially) as, say, those who regularly post here. This has thrown off several people in my personal experience, though I do not know how widespread the confusion has been.

Every event page on soinc.org starts with these 2 sentences:

"The information on this page should not be interpreted as an extension of the rules. The official rules in the current Rules Manual take precedence."

How can we be more explicit than that?

That seems to be a rhetorical question, but I'll attempt to answer it anyways: removal of the material that throws some parents and coaches off or, at least, shoving it into a deep, dark corner of the page. Those two sentences are based on the assumption that A)folks are reading them and B)they take them to heart. I suppose reason for confusion (people having A but not B, if even A) is that, despite those two sentences, the majority of other event pages on the National site are populated with relevant information labeled by applicable year, in several cases. Then, you have Food Science, a new event that technically should not have artifacts from previous seasons sitting around to throw people off, with the required cupcake experiments handout.

I understand that it may be logistically impossible to attack this problem, but it's there, nonetheless. How many people do you see posting on this forum who have not read the rules closely, let alone the National site page?

Does anyone know how to calculate the calorie content in food with the nutrition label? My partner and I have been trying for a while and we always are slightly off.

So what's the point of Food Science anyway?

To learn about food. And science. And sciency food. Also the makeup of food. And stuff.

KittenPsychology wrote:To learn about food. And science. And sciency food. Also the makeup of food. And stuff.

After doing FS for two years.... that is still the best explanation there is! So glad I do not have FS this yr!

Sunshine Ninja wrote:

KittenPsychology wrote:To learn about food. And science. And sciency food. Also the makeup of food. And stuff.

After doing FS for two years.... that is still the best explanation there is! So glad I do not have FS this yr!

I do and two weeks before state.